We stand at a tipping point: do we fire up the popcorn maker or start digging a fallout shelter in the garden? (Trump cont)

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Old thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3207431-When-a-nation-s-children-marched-and-their-President-ignored-them-Trump-cont

I’m all out of inspiration for the rest of this opening post. Send the St Bernard with the brandy please.

(I read about it first in The Hill - they were the ones who mentioned the two windows .......)

I lose track. Did we know this?

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen under criminal investigation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43761555
US President Donald Trump's top lawyer is under criminal investigation, the US justice department has announced.
Prosecutors say they are focusing on Michael Cohen's business dealings rather than his work as a lawyer.
Mr Cohen has been under investigation for months, the court filing says.
The filing was in response to efforts by Mr Cohen's own lawyer to stop prosecutors reviewing material seized from Mr Cohen's office on Monday.

I cannot believe this is a Head of State. It sounds like a spoiled tween who has just had his phone privileges removed after his brother dobbed on him. In any case, isn’t it strange how in Trump-land everyone else lies, but never Donald? Even an FBI Director of impeccable record?

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DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!

Love the words of John Brennan - they have a sting like a whip. (This was in response to Trump’s Comey tweet tirade.)

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John O. Brennan Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey. As the greatest Nation history has known, we have the opportunity to emerge from this nightmare stronger & more committed to ensuring a better life for all Americans, including those you have so tragically deceived.

It beggars belief that a head of state would tweet this shit, but Trump seems to on some kind of kamikaze mission to set the bar lower with his every utterance. Just when you think you’ve surely hit the bottom, he lowers the tone again.

BTW - ‘kakistocracy’ means ‘government by the worst’.

I don't think we did, Perking. Thanks.

Kak as in cack, I assume

He's more or less 'lost it', boatyard.

I learnt a new word today!

"The word comes from the Greek words kakistos (κάκιστος; worst) and kratos (κράτος; rule), with a literal meaning of government by the worst people."

So I haven't been so far off when I've referred to Scrotus as a caca-cabeza.

Has this been posted yet? Not sure it's true, given the Buzzfeed piece posted earlier about Cohen's passport stamps, but it's interesting nonetheless. (And that article suggested all sorts of get-outs like travelling to the Czech republic from another country within the Schengen area, or even having a second, secret passport, so...)

Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier

Not far off at all!

(The Cohen case has not concluded. "Mr. Cohen’s lawyers have called the raids of his offices and hotel room an overreach of the law. Prosecutors said on Friday that they had used a search warrant, rather than a subpoena, because they had evidence that Mr. Cohen’s files might be permanently deleted — by whom, the documents did not say. Many details in the documents were redacted, but prosecutors said they had found evidence of fraud and a “lack of truthfulness” on his part.
Mr. Cohen wants his lawyers to be able to review the files and withhold privileged material before prosecutors can see them. As an alternative, he asked that an independent lawyer be allowed to review the files first. A judge scheduled a follow-up hearing for Monday and ordered Mr. Cohen to attend. The judge, Kimba M. Wood, was upset that he was not in court Friday."

In Prague?

All the best meetings happen in Prague

Is it time for the men in white coats

I sense that there is much behind that statement, Claws.

Oh, I think so, Mini.

shareblue.com/michael-cohen-prague-steele-dossier/

'Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team reportedly has evidence that Trump’s personal attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen traveled to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign — a potentially explosive development that could prove to be the strongest evidence yet of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.'

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TURN ON THE TV.

"Press pool in Lima with Vice President Pence is rushing back to the hotel unexpectedly. White House is telling the press pool that’s here in Washington to gather." - Kaitlin Collins; CNN

^^^ Not sure what that means!

Looks like the war planes are in the air.

edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/trump-us-syria/index.html?sr=twCNNp041318trump-us-syria0848PMStory&CNNPolitics=Tw

Washington (CNN) -- President Donald Trump will address the nation about Syria Friday night, a White House official said.

A US official said Trump has made a final decision on Syria after a week of deliberation.

www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-national-enquirer-a-donald-trump-rumor-and-another-secret-payment-to-buy-silence-dino-sajudin-david-pecker

I’m aware the battleships are steaming towards the Middle East; it’s whether the US is going to put them into action or not that is the question.

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President Trump says he has ordered US forces to launch precision strikes against chemical weapons facilities of Bashar al-Assad in Syria